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Akhnaten is the third of Glass's trilogy of operas about remarkable men. A musically luminous treatment of the rise and fall of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh some consider history's first monotheist, it unfolds in gradual waves to reveal two particularly striking moments: a ravishing trio for Akhnaten (a countertenor), his mother and his wife in the first act; and Akhnaten's glorious hymn to the sun disk in Act II. The prevailing mood, though, is dark and brooding, emphasized by Glass's use of an orchestra without violins. Rich in detail and sharp in characterization, Akhnaten...
...cannot dismiss Amenhotep. He was the first monotheist among the Egyptians. He was a great genius, very human, very individual. That he scratched out his father's name is not the main thing at all." Whereupon Freud fainted dead away. Jung's explanation: "Indirectly, he was continuing his reproach that I had scratched out the father's name-that is, his name...
Pull Up Your Socks. The strictness of the fast was an impressive profession of faith in Islam, the world's great third-force religion, a monotheist faith akin to Christianity and Judaism,* dedicated to stamping out polytheist religions, e.g., Buddhism and Hinduism, as pagan and "immoral...
...down to the childhood facts behind neuroses and persuade him to face them. This often does a lot of good. The true-blue Freudians have only scorn for what Dr. Brill calls "societies and individuals who offer the public better, cheaper and quicker psychoanalyses." A true Freudian is a monotheist and believes in one God, libido, the sexual urge, as the dominant force in human existence. He regards the school of Jung as pantheistic heretics (they believe that libido includes other drives besides sex); ditto for the school of Adler (which invented the inferiority complex...
...14th Century B. C. She bore him no sons: the name of their son-in-law, Tutankhamun, an effete dilettante famed for the extravagant manner of his burial, is known to every bright U. S. schoolchild. More vital is the significance of Ikhnaton for he was the first recorded monotheist. In a regal frenzy he repudiated Ammon. deity of wealth and power, consecrated himself solely to Aton. the blinding disc of the sun. His was a short-lived but intense faith. Among its effects was the temporary liberation of Egyptian art from its stilted conventions. The bust of Nefertiti...